World War I resources

War in the air for the first time in human history.

Queen Victoria was the grandmother of Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, Czar Nicholas of Russia, and King George the V of Great Britain.

The sources for the First World War held by the National Archives and the Imperial War Museum in Great Britain includes information on battles, people, a timeline and maps.

This on-line edition of Admiral Reinhard Scheer's World War One memoirs is based directly on the original, published in 1920.

This site includes interviews, maps, an interactive timeline, and brief summaries of the series episodes.

This site from the BBC includes a section on the role of the media in propaganda and one on the enduring impact of the war on women's lives.

This project is designed to provide easy access to primary sources in history and other teaching materials in a non-commercial environment.

A to Z list of topics.

Springfield Armory National Historic Site commemorates the critical role of the nation’s first armory by preserving and interpreting the world's largest historic US military small arms collection, along with historic archives, buildings, and landscapes.

This archive of primary documents from World War I has been assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). International in focus, the archive intends to present in one location primary documents concerning the Great War.

The poems that were written in English during the war.

An Internet history of the Great War.

Emphasis is on Wilfred Owen and other poets of the period.

August 2014 marks one hundred years since the start of World War One. To commemorate this landmark occasion, British Pathé have launched this definitive collection of WW1 films.
British Pathé holds one of the finest and most comprehensive First World War archives in the world. If you are unable to find what you are looking for, you can explore the entire archive using the search bar at the top of this page.